While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be ... 25% of patients required surgery on their aorta, 53% required valve replacement, and 26% developed aortic aneurysms over the course of follow ...

For people born with a bicuspid aortic valve ... who experience symptoms of aortic stenosis, surgery to repair or replace the ...

May 17, 2022 — The timing of valve replacement heart surgery is crucial, and should be performed earlier than previously thought for people with aortic stenosis, a new study shows. The condition ...

Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...

Objective In this study, the impact of regular training on left ventricle morphology in a group of athletes with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) was evaluated. Design Longitudinal cohort study. A group of ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement or implantation (TAVR or ... providing an alternative to open heart surgery. TAVI for pure aortic regurgitation (AR) — in which a damaged valve becomes ...

Connective tissue disorders such as Marfan’s syndrome, Turner’s syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and bicuspid aortic valve have a significantly ... Without surgery, mortality rates within ...